A Death in the Country, and Other Tales of Our Time

by Stephen Vincent Benét

Book Overview

Among Ben t's most beautiful and moving works are these eight deceptively simple short stories that he assembled as Tales of Our Time. Each tale uses a seemingly commonplace situation-a class reunion, a funeral, teenagers falling in love in the summer, a family embarrassed by a father's crude joke, a marriage quietly failing under cover of social courtesies-to expose the fraught and complex dimensions of the characters' relationship to society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692558845
• ISBN13: 9780692558843
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Hythloday Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"